Awesome! I bought a Go Board 3 days ago based on your recommendation and it arrived today. I have been pouring through the content on the nandland.com website – some a little basic, but it fills in all the gaps along with giving the deep stuff…. Thank you!
Chris and Dave – I am glad you finally met up!

What video from Mike Harrison (White Wing Logic) where you guys referring to? Or the processor in the bedroom? Latin for going to the stars?

Couldn’t find the lidor product from Lemnos, but regarding the impending robot revolution, this is a good video on the future of work and how automation is going to require us to re-think ‘work’!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTBjXq_9JtI

Regarding the Sandsquid alternative, Is Dave #2 planning on releasing or open-sourcing the straight from Altium to BOM/Purchase order script?

The North American paper size you were struggling to name early in the podcast is called ledger, not legal. I suspect the similarity of the words “ledger” and “legal” is the actual source of the confusion:

Ledger sized paper is also called “tabloid.” I believe the tabloid newspaper gets its name from the paper size rather than the other way around.

One of your later topics in the episode also touches tangentially on this same topic: Octavo Systems’ name refers to a paper size! Octavo is Latin for ⅛, referring to a method for producing books where 8 leaves of the final book are printed on a single large sheet of paper, which is then cut three times in half, giving 2³=8 double-sided leaves or 16 printed pages.

Although octavo format originally referred to this process, the word became associated with the resulting book size, which is about the size of most modern books, ranging from cheap paperbacks up through typical hardbacks. (Excluding things like coffee table books.) That’s right, people figured out the proper size for books hundreds of years ago, when the printing press was young. Human factors haven’t changed, only the technology has.

That makes the definition circular, leading to some confusion. A snooty term for a typical printed book is “an octavo,” even if it wasn’t produced by printing 16 pages double-sided onto a large sheet and cutting it down into 8 leaves.